Midazolam—a sedative used in three botched executions this year—is included in two of four drug combinations that can now be used by Oklahoma executioners ...

Arizona's botched executions have sparked a national debate over the use of lethal injections, with questions raised about ...

Nine inmates have filed a lawsuit challenging the state’s new lethal injection process.

Accusing the state of “reckless maladministration” of the lethal-injection process, an attorney for condemned killer Ronald ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s string of ...

Death row is serious business, and those who work behind the scenes to administer the lethal injection have a stressful job, but what about back in the day, when people were executed by swinging an ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost expressed on Monday his support for a bill that would legalize execution by nitrogen hypoxia in Ohio, while claiming private companies are withholding ...

An Alabama inmate was executed by lethal injection on Thursday evening, the state's attorney general confirmed, marking the state's third execution this year. Keith Edmund Gavin, 64, was convicted on ...

An execution in the state of Alabama is raising more questions about a controversial drug used in lethal injections. Late last night, Alabama executed Ronald Bert Smith, a convicted murderer. In that ...

Charles Victor Thompson received a lethal injection Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

"The simplest [execution] I know of is the guillotine. And I'm not at all opposed to bringing it back. The person's head is cut off and that's the end of it," said Jay Chapman. Chapman is the creator ...